ISSUE # 37 April-June 2009 | First Person

Vocations at the Margins of Society
By Fr. Orville Cajigal, RCJ

AMy conviction, my life, my faith, my religious and priestly vocation were shaken by the reality I have witnessed.

When we were students of Theology, we had our immersion in urban poor communities in Pasay City. We tried to enter into their context so that we can have an experience of their own experience, at least during the time that we were with them. I was greatly disturbed by the sub-human and miserable situation they were
in. Such disturbance was intensified by the obvious difference and widening gap between the comfortable and convenient religious life and the hand-to-mouth existence of so many poor people. I was ashamed of myself because there were moments I complained about the food while some of them would be easily contented with pagpag.

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